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(Click for largest image) Preminger, Otto. PREMINGER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. New York City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. 208 pages. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket. The author's Hollywood memoir. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. A beautifully produced book, which shows a color double-portrait by Burt Glinn of Otto Preminger: His bald head on the front cover and his smiling face on the back cover. The Hollywood actor/director's memoir of his long and brilliant career is an absorbing and fascinating read. Preminger directed 36 films and (less well-known) 32 stage productions of both the classics and contemporary plays. For better or for worse, he will be remembered for such film classics as "Laura", "River of No Return", "Carmen Jones" (the adaptation of the great opera), "The Man With The Golden Arm" (the adaptation of Nelson Algren's great novel), "Anatomy of a Murder", which is widely considered to be his masterpiece, "Exodus", "The Cardinal", and "Hurry Sundown" (a pioneering and daring film about racism, with Jane Fonda, Michael Caine, and Faye Dunaway). One of his juiciest revelations is his affair with the legendary Gypsy Rose Lee, the inspiration for the musical "Gypsy", with whom he has a son, Erik Preminger. An irresistible treat, this read more

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